New Guinea
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# 37295
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
The artist with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).
Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of …
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# 44317
REEVES, Edward
Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. Memoir of …
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# 41879
DELATTRE, Charles
Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.
Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …
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# 44023
POWELL, Jane P.; FRIEDMAN, Martin L.
Primitive Art of the Pacific Islands
New York : Brooklyn Museum, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [16], illustrated with tribal artefacts from New Ireland, New Guinea, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, New Zealand and the Admiralty Islands.
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# 43436
HENDERSON, Jim and Anne
[NEW GUINEA] Languages of the Louisiade archipelago and environs
Ukarumpa PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1974. “Reprinted from Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 3″. Octavo, cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. 39-62, with several maps; a good copy.
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# 43434
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ane : hymn book in the Motu language of Papua.
Rabaul, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea : Methodist Mission Press, 1960. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (sunned and marked), pp 80, [3 index]; title page with early owner’s name; contents clean. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language …
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# 43284
TAYLOR, J. L. ("Jim")
Exploration of Unknown New Guinea.
Published in four issues of Pacific Islands Monthly (Sydney, NSW), Vol. X, Nos. 8-11, March-June 1940. No. 8, Section I: pp. 37-42 with 1 map and 3 b/w photos; No. 9, Section II: pp. 37-41 with 1 map; No. 10, Section III: pp. 32-37 with 1 map; No. 11, Section IV: pp. 50-54; the four …
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 42723
MALLET, Alain Manesson
[QUEENSLAND; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA] Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie
[Paris] : [Chez Denis Thierry], [1683]. Octavo leaf (209 x 131 mm) from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, the text verso in French with two brief entries titled De la Terre des Papous and De La Carpentarie. The map itself shows the north coast of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands with some accuracy, …
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# 41936
GIRARD, F.
Nouvelle-Guinée : Haut Morobé et Bas Sépik
Paris : Société des Amis du Musée de l’Homme, 1956. “Les objets présentés dans cette exposition ont été recueillis en 1954-55 par F. Girard … en mission du Musée de l’Homme et du C.N.R.S.” Small quarto, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [24] pp, illustrated with black and white plates, map; a fine copy. Text in French. …
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# 41691
INGLIS, Gordon
Papua : “A grandchild of the empire.”
[London] : Charles Hooper, [1912]. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth; pp. 47, with 16 b/w photographic plates; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher to the front free-endpaper.
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# 41689
GRIMSHAW, Beatrice
The new New Guinea.
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1910. First edition. Thick octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth (very lightly marked, spine ends a little softened); top-edge gilt; pp. viii, 322, [2] (colophon, verso blank), plus 48 leaves of b/w photographic plates, and a folding map; an excellent first edition copy, with the bookplate of …
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# 41303
GROVES, Murray
[NEW GUINEA] Dancing in Poreporena.
The Arthur Maurice Hocart Memorial Prize Essay, 1954. Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 84: 75-90. London : RAI, [1954?]. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), original stapled green wrappers (sunned along spine, very light vertical crease, pen annotation to upper wrapper), pp. 16; internally excellent; from …
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# 41307
TERRITORY OF PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE EDUCATION
[NEW GUINEA] Papuan junior reader no. 5. 1943.
At head of title: Territory of Papua. Native Education. Canberra : L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Govt. Printer, 1943. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), original printed stiff wrappers, pp [8], 198; photomechanical process and line-drawn illustrations throughout; text in English; an exceptional copy, in pristine condition; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the …
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# 41587
DUPEYRAT, André
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans
London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection …
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# 41159
[ZAHN, August, editor]
Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.
Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …